All Posts Tagged With: "LGBT"
Happy DADT Repeal Day!
The repeal of the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law will be officially certified today.
22Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Change In My Lifetime
Real change takes a long time and a lot of hard work. No one has worked harder for change than LGBT activists and it’s paid off. Bill Clinton signed DADT (remember this was considered a step forward at the time) and DOMA. In 2004, Republicans were putting anti-marriage equality laws on the ballot to boost [...]
8Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Late Night Video — Senators Tell LGBT Youth That It Gets Better
This is excellent — several U.S. Senators film another bit of support to LGBT youth, sending the message that it does get better. MANY props to Senator Chris Coons who is a big participant here.
29Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 11 comments | Continued
COLAGE
The News Journal wrote a story of the group COLAGE, a group that supports the children of gay and lesbian parents.
16May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
What Is A Hate Group?
The Southern Poverty Law Center named 13 anti-gay groups as hate groups. Not to be outdone, the Tea Party Nation made it’s own list of hate groups: the ACLU, the NAACP, the Department of Homeland Security, SPLC and the SEIU.
31Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Cindy McCain Lies
What a weak, pathetic woman. Shame on me for thinking she had a backbone (and a part of me is hoping that this is a big misunderstanding – that someone hijacked her twitter account). Geez, why even make the ad if you’re going to cave? And either she doesn’t support the NOH8 campaign, and is okay with treating the LGBT community as second class citizens, or there’s some major dysfunction in the McCain marriage.
14Nov2010 | pandora | 15 comments | Continued
DADT Vote Next Week
The Senate will take up the Defense Authorization bill next week, which contains the DADT repeal.
14Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
The Ghost Whisperer
DADT repeal has been a hot topic this year, and surprisingly uncontroversial. The repeal is supported by more than 70% of Americans. John McCain has become one of the leaders in Congress against DADT-repeal. At one point during the hearing, McCain showed a letter which he claimed had been retired military officers [...]
6Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act Today
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed by President Obama in a White House ceremony today. This new law is an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, which will be signed in a separate event to day. This long needed law (and one promised by the Obama campaign):
28Oct2009 | cassandra_m | 25 comments | Continued
Get The Champagne Ready
Sources tell us that SB 121 (AKA HB 5) has passed the Senate after a 4 hour debate. All the amendments have been defeated. The bill now goes to the House for debate. Watch here for details!
Update 8:52 PM: Delaware Politics reports that the bill has passed the House as well.
Update 9:34 [...]
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